The Holocaust In Elie Wiesel's Night

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In Elie Wiesel’s Night, many sensitive topics are discussed like the harsh treatment of Jews by the Nazis during WWII. Elie starts out in a town, where a religious man is taken away for a while. The man gets back and spreads horror stories about the treatment of Jews. Nobody believes him at first, until all of the Jews are liquidated to Ghettos. In these ghettos the Jews were treated less and less like humans and people started to believe the horror stories. Then one day the Nazis came in and had the Jews march to trains that would eventually take them to Concentration Camps. After the Jews arrived at the camps, they were separated from their families, and selected to live or die. The horror stories were indeed true, and all of the Jews believed

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